WEBVTT NOMINATION.TODD: A SHOE STORE IN STUARTGOES UP IN FLAMES TODAY WITH SIXPEOPLE INSIDE THAT BUILDING.FIREFIGHTERS BATTLED MASSIVEFLAMES AND HEAVY SMOKE.BEFORE THEY GOT THERE THE 18YEAR OLD SON TRIED TO PUT OUTTHE FIRE HIMSELF.AS A GROUP -- AS IT GREW, HE WASBURNED AND HAD TO BE RUSHED TOTHE HOSPITAL.THE BUILDING IS GONE NOW.>> YOU CAN SEE THIS BUILDING ISCLEARLY A TOTAL LOSS.ACTUALLY GOT ON SCENE THEY KNEWTHEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SAVETHIS BUILDING.LOOK HOW CLOSE THE 7-ELEVEN IS.THEY PUT A LOT OF EFFORT ONSAVING THAT BUILDING AND THEYWERE ABLE TO DO THAT AT THEREWAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO.>> THIS IS THE BIGGEST FIRE WEHAVE HAD IN QUITE A WHILE.>> IT DESTROYED WHEN A STUART'SOLDEST BUSINESSES.THE SHOE STORE HAS BEEN AROUNDFOR GENERATIONS.>> I HEARD A LOUD SCREAM IN OURSHOWROOM.ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES NOTEDFLAMES COMING OUT OF THE REPAIRSHOP.>> DAN WAS ONE OF HALF A DOZENPEOPLE INSIDE AT THE TIME ANDTHEIR FIRST THOUGHT WAS TO HOUSETHOSE FLAMES -- WAS TO DOUSETHOSE FLAMES.>> HIS SON KEPT TRYING AND WOUNDUP SUFFERING BURNS ON HIS LEG.STUART POLICE ARRIVED ANDUSHERED EVERYBODY OUT OF THEBUILDING.JUST LIKE THAT, THE ENTIREBUILDING WAS IN FLAMES.FIREFIGHTERS COULD NOT SAY THAT.>> OUR FIRST OBLIGATION IS TOPROTECT ANY EXPOSURE.OUR CREWS ARE PROTECTING7-ELEVEN OR ANY OTHER ADJACENTSTRUCTURES.>> ALL THE WORK FOR 29 YEARS --IT IS PAINFUL TO SEE IT GO UP INFLAMES.>> PAINFUL BUT HE SAYS THAT HEIS GRATEFUL THAT NOBODY WASBADLY HURT.EVEN AS HE WATCHES THE FLAMES HEIS ALREADY PLANNING FORTOMORROW.>> THINGS CAN BE REPLACED.THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY KNOWUS AND WE WILL BE BACK AGAIN.>> ONE MORE LOOK AT THE DAMAGEINSIDE THIS BUILDING.FIREFIGHTERS TELL ME THAT THEYWILL REMAIN UNSEEN UNTIL THEYARE 100% SURE THE FIRE WILL NOTREKINDLE.